Shoe-heel lift.



E. E. LOTTIER.

SHOE HEEL LIFT. APPLICATION FILED JULY 30, 1912.

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SHOE-HEEL LIFT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patent-ed Mar. 25, teas.

Application filed July 30, 1912. Serial. No. 712,233.

' To all whom it may cancer-a Be it known that-ll, ERNEST E. Lorrnin, acitizen of the United States, and a. resident of West .Hoboken, in thecounty of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented a new andImproved Shoe-Heel Lift, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are:To provide a resilient heel having a non-resilient portion adapted tohold nails or other fastening devices when driven through said heel; toprovide a simple and efficient means for securing a heel of thecharacter mentioned u on a shoe; and to provide a resiliend por ion forheels, the wearing surface of which has the gripping qualities of rubberand of leather.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which,

Figure 1 1s a plctorial view of a shoe having a heeliconstructed andarranged in ac-- the preferred form of the present invention; Fig. 2 isa detail view, on an enlarged scale, showing the heel illustrated inFig. 1 and a vertical section thereof, the section beingtaken on theline 22 in Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a vertical section taken on the line 3--3in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a pictorial view of a shoe having a heel arrangedin-accordance with a modfied formof the invention; Fg. 5 is a detailview,on an enlarged scale, showing a longitudinal vertical section ofthe heel illustrated in Fig. 4, the section being taken on the line 5-5in Fig. (3; Fig. 6 is a vertical section taken on the line 66 in Fig.

In the preferred form of the invention is shown in Figs. 1 to 3inclusive, a rubber heel lift 14. The lift 14 is molded to provide arecess to receive the leather tab 15. The tab 15 is provided withchamfered edges 16, to rest beneath the overhanging portion 17 withwhich the lift 14'is provided. At the rear of the tab 15 and of the lift14, the said tab and the recess for holding the same are curved, as seenbest in Fig. 1 of the drawings, the curve being concentric with theshape of the, body of the heel and the outer edge of the lift 14. At theforward edge of the lift 14, the recess for holding the cordance with 15constituting tab 15 is open, by which means the tab may be insertededgewise within said recess.

When the lifts 14 are'supplied to the trade, there is insertedin each atab 15. Before inserting the tab 15, I preferably coat the same with asuitable cement, which unites the rubber of the lift 14 and the tab 15,constituting therewith a single unitary element forshoe and boot making.

When the shoemaker is provided with lifts of the character described,the method of applying the same i the same as that at present followed,wherein is employed nails or brads 19, or, if desired wooden pegs. As inapplying all lifts in the upbuilding of heels, the juxtaposed surface ofthe lift 14 is provided with asuitable cement, which" adheres the lift14 to the heel body 18. When the heel is finished, the

side walls or surface may be furnished in the manner at present employedwhen constructing heels from leather lifts exclusively.

With a heel constructed as above described, it will be found that theimpact of the heel upon the pavement is softened by the rear edge of thelift 14, but that when the entire surface of the heel is planted on theground, the uncertainty of tread, forming at present an objectionablefeature in rubber heel lifts, is avoided, the leather tab a correctivetherefor. Fur.- ther, it will be found that when the heel is fullyplanted on the ground, the tendency inherent in rubber heels to sliri onmoistened surfaces, is corrected'by the eather tab-15 gripping saidsurfaces.

In the modified form of the invention shown in Figs. 4 to 6 inclusive,the leather tab 20 is provided'with lateral extensions 21, which extendfully across the forward edge of the lift to form a leather protectivemember for the lift, and to increase the wear of the same. Theparticular wear to avoid which the extensions 21 are provided is thatincident to the scufling of the heel or the striking of slight proections in the pavement over which the ball of the footpasses as thefoot is descending to the ground. The blow of these projections hasheretofore played a large part in the destruction of the rubber heel'tabs.

It will be noted that the extensions 21 are secured in position by thefasteners or brads 19. The rubber lifts 22 employed in conjunction withthe tab 20 differ from the to the heel body 18 is,

lift 14 only in that recesses are rovided adjacent the forward edgethereo to receive the extensions 21.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent p 1. A shoe heel lift, comprising a rubber bodyportion having formed therein a re- .cess open at the side and forwardedge of the heel to form awearing surface at the side t ereof a recessopening downwardly I two subscribing witnesses.

and at the forward edge, the sides of said body portion surrounding saidrecess being cut away adjacent to the breast of the heel;

and a leather tab'mounted upon said body 20 portion to form. a wearingsurface for said heel, said. tab having at the forward edge extensionsto the side of the lift in front of said cut-away portions of saidrubber body portion to protect the same.

1 In testimony whereof I have signed. my name to this specification inthe presence of ERNEST E. LOTTIER. Witnesses:

S; G. HYATT,

O. H. Sournn.

